I agree with you, and think you're doing exactly the right thing. It's not your son's problem, his job is to have a normal childhood with some nice kids. If my parents had told my sister and me that they believed things were real that they believed to be false, and had marched us off to church with all the other children in our southern town, our lives would have been a lot easier in a number of ways. (I do understand what the deep downside of that decision might have been for us, too; but it's different for your son, it isn't a church service, and doesn't require elaborate lies on your part, it's boy scouts.)
I actually tried to protect our son from having the experience that my sister and I did at the hands of the Christian children by proposing to him, when he went off to school, that he protect himself from the Christian hatred and violence I had experienced by not discussion religion at school. But he, being a fearless fighter and very self confident, would hear nothing of that idea; and as it happened, times had also changed, and we live in the north, so he had virtually no problem. |
